Silverstone TJ11 Carbon

About 4 weeks I was doing nothing, My wife was getting crazy.
But now it is here ......... a new build, with a beautiful case, the Silverstone TJ11
When I first saw the case I had something like "I to want to mod this one"

I must admit that a number points are not so nice at this case.
This "negative" points I will certainly adjust. But they have also a lot of beautifull things renewed.
The main hardware and other materials

And a Silverstone logo for on the case or something. could laugh about this

Because the painted this on my beautiful expensive case

Do not mind that it’s made in China, but please don’t do this anymore
This was the case step by step. next challenge is to brainstorm how to install the various components.
New case, new challenges I love it ............... to be continued

Fortunately i’ve received some products this week, modding time !!!
To place some hdd’s put the hdd bays together

To get this build a little over the top I’m gonna put in 3 BP hdd coolers. A while ago I had two from L3p bought for a future build, but this is the perfect case for the coolers. So This week i’ve bought the third. L3p Thanks man!

Later on hdd's underneath with some support at the sides

The bay is accessible and gonna be placed like this

And i’ve used an old piece aluminum panel that I had left after a window cutout ........ never throw something away

I ordered some yellow acrylic. Really a gamble because no pictures were there of the yellow color
But fortunately it is just the right color that fits with my yellow sleeve

Made some french fries

And made the yellow lines in the slots of the hotswaps. Don’t have to be open because the water cooling. And the yellow lines will come back more often in this build

And the remaining three hotswaps finished

Imagine the front plate with carbon film (vertical straight lines)
And finally a hardware exchange. The Classified goes out the to a buddy of mine, he was in love with the carbon blocks. And I got an nice opportunity

Now that I have the REIII I can not stay behind in order to coat it with carbon. Before I'm going to do this, there is some treatment needed.
If I stick the carbon film without doing this, you will see the holes where the bolds are in
That's why I’m gonna cover the holes. What we need:

Detergent

Ammonia with some cotton swabs

And some silicone sealant

First I have cleanedand degreased the holes and bolts

Then the put the sealant in it and smoothed it with detergent on the finger

When everything was dry I put the carbon on. Heated the carbon with the heatgun to get the Straight edges

Cut the edges and lines with a sharp knife

Then it was time to treat the motherboard. Screwed the The original blocks off and used a cleaning kit to clean everything

I also changed the cover of the radiator, as I need to have optimum heat dissipation. That's why I cut a 120mm hole next to the radiator
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This fan will blow the hot air out from the lower compartment

To still stay a little original , I’ve have made a custom midplate, this will be covered with yellow acryl

1mm Aluminum plate

First tape it and marking it

Total shot coming up. The air intakes in the side panels are in my opinion not pretty, but it offers a possibility to use it for 2 aquaero's
Made a bracket and fitted it with an old Aquaero

For this one also created openings for the midplate that still has to be bent. I had hoped that I already could showed, but I'm still waiting for my new little folding machine

Then placed the two Aquaero's VF

Placed the midplate in front

Also placed the side panel

To get smaller recess in the side panel I have a made a piece of aluminum and marked it

And made this also with openings in the size of the display of the aquaero, s

These I put on the inside and on the outside I have made another piece

This I have made as tight as possible because there wil be later on carbon on it and I do not want to have ugly edges visible. Just put a little bit carbon on it to show what the intention is

Soon as I'm going to do the whole panel, and maybe I’m gonna place another acrylic display for it

Am also has been busy with the hardware and the WC stuff. Gonna place the reservoir at the back. For this there are coming 2 x EK-DDC X-RES with 200mm reservoirs
To see how it will look i’ve placed them like this

Fits tightly next to my Corsairs

Placed the two GTX480, third one is coming. Still gonna do someting with the gpu’s

Now there are nickel backplates but these will be exchanged with black ones

Nice to have Corsair

Tuesday my folding machine is coming and I can finish the midplate

That's it on my last day of my vacation, tomorrow back to work ........... unfortunately
Updates will now take a bit longer

Sleeve Update:
Today there's rain in the netherlands, a lot of rain, so a good excuse to go sleeving
For this I'm gonna renovate my Be quiet my 1200w power. This was one of the first PSU I've ever sleeved. And in the meantime, I've learned some things to do a beter sleevejob
Renovation work includes: giving cables the same size, heatshrink equal size, tighten the sleeve on the wires and add a color.

Just a little tip, if you start using a light color sleeve, it is best to use same color electrical tape around the wire as the sleeve color
This is because the color of the wire always stands out. Orange, black etc. you can see the color through the sleeve
Not shocking but "no compromise"

Yellow sleeve............ yellow insulation tape

Now you see no other color through the yellow

All black heatshrinks renovated

And the wires of the PSU are finished, did also extend the wires for this big case